Hampden Sydney College

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Anonymous wrote:Dumb rich racists. After Obama was re-elected there was a riot on campus where students were yelling racial slurs and throwing bottles outside of the minority student union.

Until I read this thread, I thought Hampden Sydney was an HBCU-I guess I'm not from the south.

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You are thinking of Hampton University (nee Hampton Institute). No, clearly, you are not from the South.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know about the dumb thing. Could be true but I think the majority of their grads--a very high majority--go onto get advanced degrees. The grad I know went to Duke Medical School.

Is his name alliterative? If so, I dated him for a quick minute.

My take is that they are not necessarily all dumb, just not quick or particularly bright. Nice (for the most part), hard-working...kind of dull.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:H-SC is for rich southern men. We don't consider D.C to be southern. Most of you all sound like you're poor and ignorant. At Hampden-Sydney we educate men to preform well in the work place. We may not have the smartest guys, but we make them into amazing men. We make sure they are well paid. $100k+ right out of college. Get it right you left wind fags

100k out of this joke of a school?? We in DC aren't ignorant enough to believe that. Maybe try "Alabama middle of nowhere mom and dads forum" they might believe that.

[Anonymous]

HSC grad here. Will match my dumbass paycheck with yours anyday, pompous East Coast elitists. No, did not get a pathway paved by my daddy or my mommy. I got a lot out of HSC in terms of great professors and decent hard-working classmates, most of whom were not rich boys from old Southern families. Are there schools with higher admissions stats? Certainly. Does HSC turn out successful graduates? Yessir. If you come down to HSC, you will be treated with respect and be shown a good time. Having been to some of the superior schools up North, I can't say that is what you will experience at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HSC grad here. Will match my dumbass paycheck with yours anyday, pompous East Coast elitists. No, did not get a pathway paved by my daddy or my mommy. I got a lot out of HSC in terms of great professors and decent hard-working classmates, most of whom were not rich boys from old Southern families. Are there schools with higher admissions stats? Certainly. Does HSC turn out successful graduates? Yessir. If you come down to HSC, you will be treated with respect and be shown a good time. Having been to some of the superior schools up North, I can't say that is what you will experience at all.

PP Well said (HSC alum)

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Treated with respect? Only if you're white!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HSC grad here. Will match my dumbass paycheck with yours anyday, pompous East Coast elitists. No, did not get a pathway paved by my daddy or my mommy. I got a lot out of HSC in terms of great professors and decent hard-working classmates, most of whom were not rich boys from old Southern families. Are there schools with higher admissions stats? Certainly. Does HSC turn out successful graduates? Yessir. If you come down to HSC, you will be treated with respect and be shown a good time. Having been to some of the superior schools up North, I can't say that is what you will experience at all.

Unless you're a woman or a minority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Treated with respect? Only if you're white!

Empirical Evidence Or Just A BS Provocateur? Bet It Is The Latter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dumb rich racists. After Obama was re-elected there was a riot on campus where students were yelling racial slurs and throwing bottles outside of the minority student union.

Until I read this thread, I thought Hampden Sydney was an HBCU-I guess I'm not from the south.

I actually thought that it was an HBCU also. I grew up in McLean and still live in NoVA.

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Anonymous wrote:My father went there in the '60's and it had a far better academic reputation. He went on to graduate top of his class at Medical College of Virginia.

That being said reputations often negate reality --- for instance - to all the PPs who went to a VA women's college and rated the HS men poorly - just so you know those of us who attended women's colleges in New England, consider your women's colleges in VA to be nothing more than fluffy finishing schools for the over-indulged.

So it is all in perspective my friends.

Indeed. I associate Smith with hiking boots and generally useless college majors and Wellesley with female students who couldn't quite manage to get into an Ivy or a Williams/Amherst. And Mount Holyoke simply draws a total blank.

Are you even remotely familiar with the Seven Sisters Colleges??

I assume you are familiar with Hillary Clinton - a Wellesley grad - I'm guessing she isn't too torn up about not "managing to get in to Williams/Amherst".

Or perhaps you are familar with Julia Childs and Gloria Steinem both of whom I am sure would find humor in your hiking boots analogy.

And let me fill in your total blank on Mount Holyoke --

Mount Holyoke provided the inspiration, the model, and often the leadership, for the many women's colleges that followed. A few examples: Wellesley College was founded by a Mount Holyoke trustee, Henry Durant, and its first president was an 1853 Mount Holyoke alumna, Ada Howard. Another trustee, John Greene, was instrumental in founding Smith College. Susan Tolman Mills, class of 1845, and her husband founded Mills College in California.

Alumnae include:

•First woman specialist in aerospace medicine
•Co-discoverer of the antibiotic nystatin, first of the "wonder drugs"
•Inventor of Apgar Score, used worldwide (and probably on you!) to measure health of newborn babies in the delivery room
•First physician to identify cystic fibrosis
•First woman president of the:
•American Chemical Society
•Royal Canadian Institute
•American Paleontological Society
•American Association of Physical Anthropology
•First woman given a research post at Woods Hole Biological Laboratory
•One of the first women to earn a Ph.D. in science from Yale University
•Primary anesthesiologist at New England's first heart transplant
•Developer of the concept of "territoriality" to explain birds' nesting behavior
•First woman to serve in a U.S. President's Cabinet and the creator of Social Security, minimum wage, and workmen's compensation
•First woman elected a state governor on her own (without succeeding her husband)
•First African American woman to attain tenure at Harvard Medical School
•First woman movie producer to win an Oscar
•First woman railroad superintendent

Ancient history. Now that formerly all-male schools admit women, the Seven Sisters are a shadow of their former self. The fact that some Mount Holyoke grad founded another school in 1850 is pretty much a factoid.

Absolutely true. Same goes for Catholic all-female colleges.